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charlesdibiat: Messi all dway......althou I don't fancy d team of d year...marclo cud av bin replaced by ashley cole...pique by kompany and falcao by cavani

anoda EPL fan boy. Only player from EPL that could have made this FIFpro team is Van Persie.

Abby, hmmm.

free13: Guy you know nothing about me. So just remain civil.
If you have nothing to say just shut up.

your comment revealed alot about you man. You cannot rightly claim I insulted you. Just telling u to watch other leagues also. EPL is crap.

kolamilan: yeah that goal deserve goal of the year.

Lol... I agree, but this award is for a competitive season, not a year.
Plus the goal was in a friendly.

I like Messi polka dots jawe

free13: In which world? Real world or fake world?

you obviously do not know much about football. Maybe you watch only EPL. Learn to watch other leagues. Only Messi and Ronaldo can rightly be rated above Falcao and they dnt play 9.

mrlycan: Who drogba no fit bench.....racist

you are the racist. You want an African up there even when he isnt good enough to be there. Drogba wasnt even anywhere as good as Van Persie last season

free13: Falcao.

E b like say u smoke.
Falcao is currently the best 9 in the world!

free13: why drogba no dey fifa 11?

who drogba fit bench for there?

Make dem fast give messi the thing jor.

D Granite: Any lady that still reads instruction on d pack of semovita b4 making it, nd she knws almost all eatery in town is not a wife material *winks*

and em... Your point on this thread is?

Caracta: Smh...i said idowu not IDOWUOGBO. Chei! Nairalanders! Una blood too dey hot

if looks could kill...

ujchief: The same criteria that made iniesta win the european best ahead
Of messi and ronaldo will still make him win this.
Its simple logic, not rocket science.

I'd still be glad if this happens. Everyone loves Iniesta.

But I fear that logic isnt fool-proof, sadly.

His performance in the Euros helped Iniesta win the UEFA award. Euro performance alone cannot decide it now. With FIFA, its an overall performance thing.

Anyways, fingers crossed.

vicenzo: Shut up. If you have no arguement,pack one side. Messi fans want us to believe that the award should be given to messi based on individual performance,but we know that cannavaro's victory in 2006 shows that,that award is sure not given by individual performance all year. And going by sneijder's snub in 2006,that award is sure not given by individuals contribution to team success. So,we are left with popularity contest,tainted by sentiments of the voters.

typical Ronaldo fan boy, resorting to being rude when you have no point.

Maybe you made a mistake mentioning Sneijder for 2006 award because he was just an injury-prone average player then.

Zidane's headbutt worked against him in 2006.

Sniejder won trophies in 2010 because he was in a team (inter) that did well collectively, not because he was exceptional as an individual. Only real football analysts would realise this.

Have you forgotten the contributions of Diego Milito, Eto'o and the impenetrable inter defense to their UCL and Serie A trophy?
Now that there is no Eto'o and in-form Milito, hope you see how good your Sneijder is.

Sneijder didnt win the world cup...
He was not the best player in the 2010 world cup tournament either, DIEGO FORLAN was!

The fact that Holland lost when Robben flopped in the finals shows how reliant Holland was on Robben, not Sneijder.

You can keep letting your emotions get the better of you, if you feel it would give Ronaldo the award. Meanwhile enjoy this leaked pic of the award.

https://www.insidespanishfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/balon-de-oro-messi-2012.jpeg

cry if you wish, like ronaldo does.

2 million: since 28 march 2012 na now this topic d make homepage...dis mod wicked o

lmao! I think say na only me notice b4 o
its not a small something.

Caracta: I ran into Idowu today

For real? gist us me na

CFCfan: There are 3 Tonto Dike frontpage threads. Wowzers!

ijebabe: 2 are thanks to me

Left to me, the three Tonto Dikeh threads and the meaningless 'Tiwa Savage and manager' thread would be the only front page threads with only one post in each of them, that of the op.

vicenzo: So,can we now agree that the award is but popularity contest,tainted by sentiments of the voters.

Yeah, just like political elections are popularity contests. Maybe we should scrap them. How dumb can one get?

If FIFA gives the award based on internal judgement, una go complain say na ojoro. If professionals outside FIFA decide by voting, una go complain say na popularity contest.

Ronaldo fan boys are bad losers...

raffite: Can this be said of Fabio Cannavaro in 2006?

In my opinion, Zidane should have won it that year, cos he was by far the best player in the world cup in a season without any exceptional player in club football.

I think Cannavaro had this world cup medal to thank.

If this is your argument, it doesnt help the Ronaldo cause.

Ronaldo won only the La liga, which is not more important than the EPL which players Aguero and Yaya Toure helped win, or Serie A in which a Pirlo-inspired Juventus went unbeaten for the whole season to win it.

Didier Drogba was Chelsea's best player and they won European clubs' biggest prize that season.

Now lets go international football. Messi didnt play in the Euros. Ronaldo put in lack-lustre performances in his first two games in the Euros. He shone in the next two.
However it would be a sacrilege to even mention Ronaldo's Euro performance in the same sentence with that of Pirlo or Iniesta (who happens to be a contender). I apologize for just doing so.

In the Euros, Ronaldo was only as good as Balotelli.

In any individual part of last season, or the whole, Ronaldo didnt come out tops in the world.

The facts (including the one you quoted) supports this.

Three Tonto Dikeh threads on front page today. WTF is wrong with Nairaland?

Where is CFC Fan?

Is it even debatable? The FIFA Ballon d'or award is for best individual performance.

Messi had the best individual performance last season. He was exceptional when many of his team mates (pedro, sanchez, villa with injury, tello, cuenca etc) were out of form and squandered so many chances.
Was always involved in Barca's build-up to goals. Scored like crazy, yet assisted superbly.

Here's the stat, Messi was directly involved in 102 goals (scored 73 and assisted 29) about 54% of Barca's total (190) goals in all competitions.
Barca won only 3 of the 12 laliga games in which Messi failed to find the net.

Ronaldo scored a total 60 goals with 15 assists. That means he was directly involved in 75 goals, about 43% of Madrid's total (174) goals.

Contribution to total amount of
team goals
Messi - 54% of Barcelona goals
Van Persie - 49% of Arsenal goals
Huntelaar - 48.7% of Schalke goals
Ibrahimovic - 45% of Milan goals
C. Ronaldo - 43% of R. Madrid goals
Gomez - 40% of Bayern goals

Yet they say Ronaldo should win for 'singlehandedly' winning laliga for Madrid. Smh. If its about the trophies, then Casillas, Iniesta, Aguero, Pirlo and Didier Drogba all deserve the award.

The stats never lie.
Messi all the way!

Let's start this letter with a little quiz:
1. Does Mr. Abrantie realize he's more slaphappy than a morally crippled slowpoke?
2. Do temerarious, unbridled caitiffs like Abrantie's loyalists actually have lives, or do they exist solely to carve out space in the mainstream for nit-picky politics?
3. Essay: Compare and contrast Abrantie's methods of interpretation to those of two-faced lie-virtuosi, focusing especially on who is more likely to unfurl the flag of barbarism.

Don't worry; I'll give you all the answers throughout the course of this letter as well as a wealth of other information about Abrantie. My hope is that the following text will delight the critical and offer food for thought to those contemplating Abrantie's maledicent litanies. Someone needs to solve the problems of yahooism, materialism, economic inequality, and lack of equal opportunity. Who's going to do it? Abrantie? I think not. Just because I understand Abrantie's threats doesn't mean I agree with them. Whenever people fail to fall for Abrantie's nocuous deceptions, he tries leading them to the slaughterhouse via the back entrance. If that ploy still doesn't work, Abrantie then sics his blood-drenched, murderous coven in all of its resplendent foulness upon them. He seems incapable of understanding that he sates his bloodlust by crushing national and spiritual values out of existence and substituting the iscariotic and pot-valiant machinery of totalism. It's that simple. According to Abrantie, it's inappropriate to teach children right from wrong. He might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then Abrantie would realize that he argues that I am ruthless for wanting to educate the public on a range of issues. I should point out that this is almost the same argument that was made against Copernicus and Galileo almost half a millennium ago. Finally, no letter about Mr. Abrantie would be complete without mention of some of the totally uncompanionable schemes that he supports. Although there are a plenitude of examples from which to choose, the most uncompanionable would have to be his proposal to damage the self-esteem and physical health of millions of young men and women. That's the sort of thing that keeps me up at night.

snthesis: Y

Typical human being.
Oya pick any babe from viewing centre and she's yours for keeps (don't ask why)

Sijo01: If it was to be a sport competition, I would have went away with a silver medal. Thats a pass mark na.

that's true o, like UEFA Champions' League silver medal abi?

Sijo01: Chie, I made 2nd...... Oya place it there for 12hrs.

"second place is just the first loser" -José Mourinho

snthesis thank you o (dnt ask why). That was close!

Sijo01: Next thread? Which?

lol. Page. Sowie
*whistling balme it on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol*

Sijo01: O'ye, I think am gradually going forth, I made it to 801 first.

repeat your feat on the next thread and I'd write your name on my signature for 24hrs

I miss?
Ok, I no miss. Ray was here

Monogamy doesnt pay *bloodshot eyes*

Idowuogbo: Hey baby! Yes u! *draws him closer and plants a kiss on his forehead*

hmmm... I see.
*stroking long chinese beard*